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Maiduguri -
One soldier was killed and 20 others were injured in a Boko Haram rocket attack in northeast Nigeria, security sources said on Saturday, just hours before elections began.
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Abuja -
Nigerians on Saturday waited to hear who their next president will be as voting in delayed elections drew to a close and the counting began.
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Abuja -
President Muhammadu Buhari vowed Friday on the eve of troubled elections that Nigerians would be able to vote in security, despite a week-long postponement and violence in the north of the country.
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Abuja -
Nigeria makes a second attempt to hold presidential and parliamentary elections this weekend, after a last-gasp postponement that angered voters and stoked the political temperature.
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Abuja -
Nigeria's rescheduled presidential and parliamentary elections will take place this weekend, the electoral commission said on Thursday, as resumed campaigning ended.
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Abuja -
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday he had ordered the police and military to be "ruthless" with vote-riggers, as preparations were made for rescheduled elections.
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Lagos -
Nigeria made final preparations Friday on the eve of a presidential election, with continuity pitted against reform in a battle between incumbent Muhammadu Buhari and his main rival Atiku Abubakar.
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Mora -
Nearly 200 Cameroonians who were members of Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadist group have returned home and surrendered to the authorities after breaking with the organisation, the government said Thursday.
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Abuja -
Nigeria's presidential candidates wrapped up their election campaigns on Thursday, making a final pitch to voters before Africa's most populous country heads into the polls.
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Maiduguri -
Four people were killed and an unknown number of others were kidnapped in a Boko Haram attack on a convoy of vehicles carrying the governor of Borno state in northeast Nigeria, sources said on Wednesday.
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Port Harcourt -
Fifteen people were killed in a stampede at an election campaign rally in southern Nigeria held by President Muhammadu Buhari, health officials said on Wednesday, in an updated toll.
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Lagos -
Gigantic billboards advertising beer now dominate the skyline of Nigeria's megacity, Lagos, signalling the escalating battle between multinational brewers for drinkers in Africa's most populous country.
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Lagos -
Angry voters queueing for hours and entire parts of the country rendered war zones: pitfalls abound for Nigeria's fast-approaching general election.
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Lagos -
The corruption trial of Nigeria's top judge will resume next week, the country's financial ethics court said Thursday, a day after his bid to stop the trial was rejected.
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Abuja -
One in seven Nigerians uses drugs, more than twice the global average, according to the country's first major national drug-use survey published on Tuesday.
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Abuja -
Nigeria's main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar on Monday called President Muhammadu Buhari's suspension of the country's top judge unconstitutional after the move triggered street protests by lawyers and parliamentary criticism just weeks before el...
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Lagos -
International pressure mounted on Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday after he suspended the country's top judge just weeks away from elections, prompting claims from opponents and civil society groups of an attempted judicial "coup".
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Lagos -
International pressure was growing Saturday on Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari after the EU, the United States and Britain questioned his decision to suspend the country's top judge.
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Lagos -
Nigerian lawyers have condemned President Muhammadu Buhari's suspension of the country's top judge shortly before the presidential elections as a "coup" against the judiciary and an attack on the constitution.
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Abuja -
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday suspended the country's top judge just weeks from elections, triggering condemnation from opposition parties who accused him of "an act of dictatorship" and mounting "a judicial coup".
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Abuja -
Corruption is taking centre stage in the run-up to Nigeria's presidential elections, with the incumbent accused of failing to tackle the scourge of graft and his challenger facing claims about his past.
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Lagos -
Fourteen people were killed and thousands fled when Boko Haram attacked a remote town in northeast Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday.
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Lagos -
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has acknowledged setbacks in the fight against Boko Haram as the jihadists launched fresh attacks in the restive northeast.
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Abuja -
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday handed responsibility for his re-election campaign to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a sign of rapprochement with the man who masterminded his landmark 2015 election win.
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Kano -
Nigeria's Islamic State West Africa Province, a faction of Boko Haram affiliated to the Islamic State militant group, has intensified attacks against the army in the northeast of the country at an alarming rate, and the military appears to be strugglin...
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Niamey -
Niger's army killed more than 280 Boko Haram militants near the southeast border with Nigeria in days of land and air raids, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
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Abuja -
Former Nigerian president Shehu Shagari, who was in power between 1979 and 1983, died Friday aged 93, the country's current president said.
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Lagos -
Five suspected killers of a former Nigerian defence chief have been arrested, the police said on Thursday.Retired air chief marshall Alex Badeh was shot dead last week by unknown gunmen on a road outside Abuja, the nation's capital.
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Kano -
Boko Haram jihadists ambushed a military convoy in northeastern Nigeria, killing 13 soldiers and a policeman, the army said Wednesday.
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Kano -
A top Boko Haram leader accused of organising deadly twin blasts in the Nigerian capital Abuja that killed 18 people has been arrested, police said Friday.
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Here in a local Lagos bar, fans watch the AFCON match betwen Nigeria and Burkina Faso on Sunday
Mrs. Toku Mike has decided to look forward following the death of her first son. She has 2 boys to look after.
The National Christian Center is a non-denominational church building of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Abuja. Chippla Vandu
The River Benue looking south east from Jimeta/Yola, Nigeria. Amjaca
Nigerians at the popular Computer Village in Lagos on Saturday Jan 14
Comrade Walter Akonye is a youth leader in Rivers State's Okuru-Ama where late Lloyd hails from. He says: "The authorities must ensure justice is done so that the soul of these young men can rest in perfect peace."
Women and children rescued from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram arrive at a camp for internally displaced persons in Yola, Nigeria. Reuters
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Cab drivers operate as late as 12:00 am in some parts of Lagos. This picture was taken at Ojuelegba area of Lagos.
Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, tasks VOA Hausa Service on balanced coverage of Boko Haram Nigerian Federal Ministry of Information and Culture
Cocoa House: Main entrance
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A power generator: The family generates most of the electricity it consumes
Parents of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped from a Chibok school last month express sorrow and outrage at a public gathering. Voice of America/Wikimedia Commons
"I took to taking long walks in the evenings, as far as I could from my house. I was shocked at what I saw. Ibadan had become a ghost town."
Late Lloyd's mother participates at a women's meeting in her local church in Porthacourt
Congregants outside the filled main auditorium of The First Baptist Church in Lagos during the cross-over into the New Year
A fun spot in Lagos on the eve of the New Year.
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, with Ambassador of Israel to Nigeria, Mr. Guy Feldman; Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare and Special Adviser to the Governor on the Environment, Mr. Babatunde Hunpe. Lagos state government
Nigerian military forces have been accused of killing almost 80 villagers in retribution for the deaths of six soldiers last week. YouTube
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